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You see, it’s interesting how there’s been such a focus on this finding from the report today, because it shows they’ve read the summary but not the body of the report. If you read the body, you find that the summary is ... not a fair reflection even of the report’s findings. https://twitter.com/nazirafzal/status/1338791742582235136
This is the summary, which has the politically useful statement that “group-based CSE offenders are most commonly White - which is no great surprise in a country where 85% of people are, of course. The question is not “most commonly”, it’s whether it’s relatively representative.
In the report, they make clear that data is lacking. But note here, *every single example they found* suggests white people are massively under-represented in group-based CSE. They couldn’t find a single case where white offenders have anywhere close to their population share.
The report also has case studies of four operations against group-based CSE and found one gang that was white (they were travellers), one “varying” and one Pakistani gang with a white member.
Given that the HO authors’ motivations were plainly to minimise the ethnic participation in group-based CSE, one can only surmise that the evidence for the “nothing to see here” hypothesis is completely lacking - otherwise it would be here.
